What ever happened to the dignity of the office? Staying above the fray? Leader of all of us?

Obama mobilizes his machine to shill for union bosses.  Mr. President, precisely what is your role in state budget disputes?  I mean other than to further damage your reputation?  Instatip

MATT WELCH: Is This How A President Should Act? “Just think–there once was a time (for more than a century, actually), when the president of the United States thought it too imperious to deliver the State of the Union via a speech to a joint session of Congress, since that would smack of telling a co-equal branch of government what to do. Now we have a president not just taking rhetorical sides in a state issue, but actively mobilizing his political organization to affect the outcome(s), even though (to my knowledge) nothing that Gov. Walker or any other belated statehouse cost-cutter is doing has a damned thing to do with federal law. . . . We are witnessing the logical conclusion of the Democratic Party’s philosophy, and it is this: Your tax dollars exist to make public sector unions happy.”